Around the Horn - Sunday, November 22nd

Green Eagles Victorious in "AAAA" CWOSSA
The St. John's Green Eagles, who have to be considered a medal favourite at the "AAAA" OFSAA championships this coming week, defeated the Waterloo CI Vikings by a 75-47 count yesterday evening in Waterloo.

Kayla Santilli led St. John's with 21, while Shelby Kurt was the high scorer for WCI with 16.

The Vikings will also qualify for the "AAAA" OFSAA Championships, which take place in Hamilton.

On the junior side of the ball, the Brantford Assumption Lions were able to withstand St. Mary's guard Kaitlin Schenck's 35-point outburst to defeat the Eagles 52-47 and claim the AAAA crown.

Emily Gill and Abby Herron had 16 each for the Lions.

Schenck, meanwhile, had a CWOSSA performance for the ages. She had 26 in the semifinals (48-36 win over Guelph JF Ross), 36 in the first round against Centennial (64-34 win) and another 30 points against WCI in the first round (52-50 OT win). That's 31.8 PPG!

St. Mary's Senior Coach Jeff Roth must be excited to see that sort of offensive potential come up to the senior ranks next year --- the highest point total registered by any St. Mary's senior girl this year was Naomi Lance's 13 against Centennial in CWOSSA.

Raiders take "AAA" Senior Title
The KCI Raiders and North Park Trojans will represent CWOSSA at the "AAA" OFSAA level.

The Raiders were victorious by a 66-59 count in last night's final. Rachael Urosevic had 28 to lead KCI.

The junior Trojans defeated the St. James Lions of Guelph 61-46 in the junior final.

Forest Heights Victorious in Sarnia
The annual Sarnia "Black and Blue" tournament, co-hosted by Sarnia St. Patrick's and Sarnia St. Christopher's, took place this past weekend.

Local teams included Forest Heights, Resurrection, and Sir John A. Macdonald.

The Trojans ended up winning the tournament championship, with a victory over Sarnia Northern in the championship game. They earlier defeated SJAM in the championship semifinals --- although SJAM was missing 6 or 7 players due to their junior football championship tilt.

As for last year's CWOSSA champs, the Resurrection Phoenix already have as many losses as they did all of last season. Resurrection went 1-1 in pool play and ended up losing in the consolation final to St. Christopher's.